George Takei Takes 'No Joy' In News Fred Phelps Could Be Dying

By
On Top Magazine Staff
Published:
March 18, 2014

Actor George Takei has weighed in on
the news that Fred Phelps is in a hospice home.

Phelps' estranged son, Nate Phelps,
said in a Facebook post that his father is living “on the edge of
death” in a hospice house and has been excommunicated from Westboro
Baptist Church, which he founded in the 1950s.

“I take no solace or joy in this
man's passing,” Takei, who is openly gay, wrote
in a Facebook post. “We will not dance upon his grave, nor
stand vigil at his funeral holding 'God Hates Freds' signs, tempting
as it may be.”

“He was a tormented soul, who
tormented so many. Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes
always to its lonely, dusty end.”